Lennon Mccartney Quotes

“Love is all you need" - The Beatles -

"And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love, you make"
- The Beatles -”
― The Beatles, Beatles Stereo Box Set

“It is the sound of the crowd that can be heard in the second, crescendoing rush of the orchestra that follows the final verse, rising from a hum to a gasp to a shout... fusing at last to a shriek (its similarity to the sound of the crowds at Beatle concerts is surely no accident). The onrushing sound of the orchestra at the end of "A Day in the Life" has transcended more than the conventions of Sgt. Pepper's Band. It is the nightmare resolution of the Beatles' show within a show. It is the sound in the eras of the high-wire artist as the ground rushes up from below. There is a blinding flash of silence, then the stunning impact of a tremendous E major piano chord that hangs in the air for a small eternity, slowly fading away, a forty-second meditation on finality that leaves each member if the audience listening with a new kind of attention and awareness to the sound of nothing at all.”
― Jonathan Gould, Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America

“Relations had soured to the point that when the Beatles attempted Lennon’s song ‘Across the Universe’ Paul McCartney complained, ‘There’s an oriental influence that shouldn’t really be there’ and pretended that he was talking about music.”
― Peter Doggett, You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup – The Untold Story of the Fab Four

“Allen Klein had achieved his ambition of managing the Beatles, but in doing so, he blew them apart.”
― Peter Doggett, You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup – The Untold Story of the Fab Four

“In the wake of Cold Turkey’s, his debut song for Yoko’s Plastic Ono Band, dismal engagement with his listening public, Lennon prepared fresh edits of two songs he’d recorded earlier, What’s the New Mary Jane and You Know My Name, and announced that they would be rush-released as a Plastic Ono Band single. Just as quickly, the project was cancelled, with Apple explaining, ‘It was mutually decided by the Beatles that it sounded more like the Beatles themselves than the Plastic Ono Band’ – not least because both songs were indeed Beatles recordings. McCartney’s reaction to Lennon’s attempted theft can easily be imagined.”
― Peter Doggett, You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup – The Untold Story of the Fab Four